CREATIVE NONFICTION

• “Northeast Indian or Assamese: Beyond the Confines of the Indian English Literary Conventions” Comparative Literature

• “What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State”, The Literary Hub, Sept 2020

• “My Brother and the Fortune Tellers”, The Chattahoochee Review / Fall 2020

• “Are You Muslim? and Other Questions White Landlords Ask Me”, Bitch Media [Reprint]

• “An Ode to the Great Undead Novella”, Catapult

• “15 Modern Indian Classics in Translation”, Electric Literature

• “Living in Translation, or Why I Love Daffodils, an Unpopular Postcolonial Flower” Catapult

• “Are You a Muslim & Other Questions White Landlords Ask Me,” New Writers of Color on the American South (Hub City Press, 2020).

• “How to write about India’s North East",” Scroll.in

• “How an Indian immigrant in the US grieves over a rapidly-changing world,” The Indian Express

• “Leaving and loving Indira Goswami’s Delhi”, The Indian Express

• “Partly True, Partly False: My Romance with Law & Order Characters”, North Dakota Quarterly

• "A Summer in Chhattarpur Farms; My life of binaries in the Capital city", The Indian Express

• "It Rains All Night Long in Teteliguri", Mint, 

• “My Life in Airplane Mode”, The Indian Express

• “Romancing the Rains”, The Hindu Business Line

• “The Bride”, Motherland Magazine

• “A window to Aparoopa: How two women struggle to break open their cages, in the debut film of Jahnu Barua—an Assamese cinema classic.” Live Mint

• “Guwahati’s Cosmetic Development”, The New York Times

• “The Unsafe Augusts of Assam”, Open Magazine

• “The Thing”, Motherland Magazine

• “People like me generally get called supporters of terrorism”, Tehelka Magazine

OP-ED / COMMENTARY

• “Ironically, the very act of censorship nudges people to pay attention to the proscribed work.” Editorial page op-ed, The Hindu, August 4th 2016.

• “Faking Diversity in Art and Literature Produces Caricatures, not Characters”, Quartz, August 2015. Reprinted as “Writers Need to Do More Than Add Shades of Brown In American literature, characters of color should also have multidimensional identities”, in The Atlantic.

• “How to Talk about Indian Racism”, Sunday Magazine, The Hindu, February 23, 2014. Print.

• “India’s Shame, Assam’s Disappeared”, Editorial page op-ed, The Hindu, Delhi, India, June 27, 2013.

• “Rapes Show the Extent of Prejudice Against India’s Northeast”, The Guardian, London, UK, 2009.

• “India Needs Talks for Assam’s Peace”, The Guardian, London UK, 2009

ON LITERATURE

• “One Hundred Years of Solitude is 50, but Love in the Time of Cholera is Marquez’s Greatest’, Scroll.in, December 2015.

• “Chimamanda Adichie’s American Dream: an essay on Americanah”, Warscapes, 2013.

• “Know Thy Neighbor: On the Bangladeshi literary giant Humayun Ahmed”, The Caravan – A Journal of Politics and Culture, March 2013, Delhi.

• “An Abduction that Changed Assamese Literature”, Open Magazine, Delhi, February 2013.

• “The Fiction of Assamese Augusts”, Seminar Magazine, Delhi, India December 2012.

• “The Peripheral Imagination: Writing the ‘Invisible India”, CNN-News18, Delhi, India, June 2012.

• “The Moydanav of poetry could turn the familiar into unfamiliar: Hiren Bhattacharya’s Poetry”, The Sunday Guardian, Delhi, India, July 2012.

• “Chimamanda Adichie’s Fiction and India’s Northeast”, Seven Sisters’ Post, 2012.

• “Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories: the Fiction of Bengali Writer Ashapurna Debi”, Seven Sisters’ Post, 2012.

• “No Separatist Treatise: Parag Kumar Das’s Novel Sanglot Fenla”, Seven Sisters’ Post, 2012.

• “Indira Goswami: A Beloved Daughter of Assam, writer, and peacemaker”, The Hindu, Delhi, India 2011.